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An outstanding feature of the year (1926) is the final equipment
and opening, on June 19th, for the use of the Lambeth Ratepayers
and others residing within the Borough, of the Council's Maternity
Home, at Millburn House. This Council's Maternity Home, for
which the Council is now entirely responsible, financially, takes the
place, and is the outcome, of the West Norwood Maternity Home,
which was inaugurated and has been carried on, voluntarily, at 106108,
Knight's Hill, for the past seven years, and which was intended,
primarily, for the use of West Norwood Residents only. The new
Home is a model Maternity Home, both as to position and equipment,
and may be regarded as, practically, completing the Lambeth Maternity
and Child Welfare Scheme.
I have, again, to put on record the valuable work of the Male Sanitary
Staffs (Special Housing and Food and District Sanitary Inspectors;,
the Female Sanitary Inspectors and the Health Visitors, the staffs of
the Central and Branch Tuberculosis Dispensaries, of the Milk Depot,
and of the Disinfecting Department, and, last but not least, the
Staff of the Clerical Department.
After all, it is the officers (the Sanitary Inspectors, Health Visitors,
&c.,) who carry out the work and to whom the credit is due.
My personal thanks are, also, again, due to the chiefs of Departments,
and to the members of the Maternity and Child Welfare and
Public Health Committees, and of the Council generally, for assistance
readily given at all times—assistance without which no medical officer
could carry out his duties satisfactorily. The various voluntary Welfare
Centres and their respective Committees have also rendered valuable
help in infantile and child welfare work in connection with the
Council's well-known Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
I am, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY,
Medical Officer of Health ar.d Chief Executive
Tuberculosis Officer.